We don’t really run into that problem at all. His presence changes the situation not because he is special in that inherent protagonist way but because of the family bond. His presence would make a difference because he either distracts the aunt or mum diverting their attention at a critical time allowing the other to break the stale mate. An example of this expounded upon would be; Mum (I’m not sure if she is Z or G) spends time with the newly arrived MC distorting his image of the aunt until he is convinced she is the bad guy. Mc eager to prove himself worthy of his mother love vows to ‘free’ her. The next time mum would engage with the aunt and the usual stale mate would occur MC would interfere with a mysterious device/spell given to or told to him by the mother resulting in the aunts explosion and his subsequent guilt. I would assume the mother misled, out right lied or MC misunderstood about what the device/spell would do, since I doubt you would want you protagonist to willingly blow up the aunt which would negate his guilt. Or equally; MC tracks down mum but aunt won’t let him see her. MC is persistent maybe sees mum lurking around the house and envisions ideas of capture having heard how “strange” the aunt is. This allows him to excuses her abandonment of him as it wasn’t abandonment if she had no choice. Thus a heroic (odd how often that can be replaced with stupid) rescue takes place where he somehow disables the aunt and frees the mother not realising what he has unleashed. Mother as revenge on aunt blows her up and MC’s quest for redemption starts. Those scenarios don’t depend on him being special just on him being there. Actually they depend on him being flawed. Looking over those I realise how much of it hinges on the mother being the bad guy. I guess I must have assumed if MC wanted to save his aunts soul she must be the good guy. Extremely linear thinking I now realise. On the narration point i realise third person would give you room to confuse (I don’t think you could do the unreliable narrator) will the shards of the aunts soul also be used as a narration device? Would we be able to see how she came to be the person she is and the conflict that goes on between her and her sister? Like every time MC collects a bit of soul he gets to ‘read’ it for lack of a better term?
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Date: 2010-08-21 07:35 pm (UTC)An example of this expounded upon would be; Mum (I’m not sure if she is Z or G) spends time with the newly arrived MC distorting his image of the aunt until he is convinced she is the bad guy. Mc eager to prove himself worthy of his mother love vows to ‘free’ her. The next time mum would engage with the aunt and the usual stale mate would occur MC would interfere with a mysterious device/spell given to or told to him by the mother resulting in the aunts explosion and his subsequent guilt. I would assume the mother misled, out right lied or MC misunderstood about what the device/spell would do, since I doubt you would want you protagonist to willingly blow up the aunt which would negate his guilt.
Or equally; MC tracks down mum but aunt won’t let him see her. MC is persistent maybe sees mum lurking around the house and envisions ideas of capture having heard how “strange” the aunt is. This allows him to excuses her abandonment of him as it wasn’t abandonment if she had no choice. Thus a heroic (odd how often that can be replaced with stupid) rescue takes place where he somehow disables the aunt and frees the mother not realising what he has unleashed. Mother as revenge on aunt blows her up and MC’s quest for redemption starts.
Those scenarios don’t depend on him being special just on him being there. Actually they depend on him being flawed.
Looking over those I realise how much of it hinges on the mother being the bad guy. I guess I must have assumed if MC wanted to save his aunts soul she must be the good guy. Extremely linear thinking I now realise.
On the narration point i realise third person would give you room to confuse (I don’t think you could do the unreliable narrator) will the shards of the aunts soul also be used as a narration device? Would we be able to see how she came to be the person she is and the conflict that goes on between her and her sister? Like every time MC collects a bit of soul he gets to ‘read’ it for lack of a better term?
Sorry for the long ramble.
Dash